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Title
Warren Perry - 'A biographical sketch of Lieutenant-Colonel T.B.W. James, DSO (1883-1939) : a Gunner Officer of the Australian Staff Corps', 1990
Creator
Warren Perry, 1909-
Call number
MLMSS 6120
Level of description
fonds
Date

1990
Type of material
Textual Records
Reference code
119871
Issue Copy
Digitised : 2014
Physical Description
0.01 metres of textual material (1 folder) - typescript, photocopy
ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

Tristram Bernard Wordsworth James (1883-1939), soldier, was born in Hobart and educated there and in Western Australia. He began his military career by enlisting in the volunteer artillery in Western Australia in 1899. In 1911 he was appointed the first adjutant of the Royal Military College at Duntroon; released for active service in April 1916 he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force as a battery commander in the 7th Field Artillery Brigade with the rank of major, and after six months training in England arrived in France in December 1916 with the 25th Battery. James won the Distinguished Service Order in 1917 for extinguishing a fire in a gun-pit under heavy shell-fire. He held various commands during the war and returned to Australia at the end of 1919. He was promoted lieut-colonel, Australian Military Forces, in 1926, retired in 1931 and died at Battersea, England.
Copying Conditions
Copyright status:: In copyright
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder<br>
Finding Aids
Read the transcript here: acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2014/D24120/a8835.html
General note

State Library of New South Wales collection of World War I papers
Digital order no:Album ID : 1055001
Name
James, Tristram Bernard Wordsworth, 1883-1939
Australian Field Artillery
Subject
Australia. Army--Gunners--Biography.
World War, 1914-1918--Australia.
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